The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-16
VOL. w..
III is not lost. The circus still hon

Senator Ingalls, has been lecturing
against womans suffrage.
The best and shortest way to abol-
ish poverty is to go to work.
A great popular need and felt want
An absolutely safe coupon cutter.
Lord Lansdowne is to draw duke
dom when the jubilee prizes are dis
tributed.
A Floating paragraph says that
Henry George smokes twenty-cent
cigars.
A circus attendants leg was nearly
chewed off by lions of menagerie
exhibiting at Chicago.
Eben b. Jordan, the big dry goods
merchant Of Boston, is the owner OF
the Boston Globe.
The Late Charles d. Keep, of tn e
Wall Street News, left fortune of a
half million or more.
The law cannot make man moral
but it can make him dreadfulIy un-
comfortable when he is immoral.
Press opinion appears to be divided
as to whether Mr.. Blaine will return
with all eyeglass or a shamrock.
The Clique that is manipulating
the corner in June wheat has already
made million and half clear prof
it.
Teddy Roosevelt is accused of har
boring the humorous suspicion that
he would be a good compromise mar
for 1888.
Secretary Lamont's face is so swol
len by his recent battles with black
flies as to render him almost unrecog
nizable.
A young lady stands at the head of &
class of nine physicians graduated a
the Syracuse University Medica
School.
Ex-Vice President Hannibal Ham
lin will be 7S in August, but he is a.
hale and hearty now as he was wher
he rounded his half century.
Mrs. Grant has repurchased one o.
the houses in Washington which sh,
transferred to William II. Vanderbilt
at the time of the Grant & Ward failure
The aggregate height of the grad
uating class at the University is S5O
feet s inches, giving an average of
feet 8 inches, very fair statute.
Twenty-Five thousand bar-maids o
various degrees of beauty dispenc
calf and alf' to thirsty denizens o
London.
Evangelists Jones and Small tool
nearly 81 200 out OF Rome, Georgia
as the results of one weeks hayinl
while the evangelistic sun shone.
There was recently sold in Paris TO
$l,100 an eight-page manuscript of tn
first Napoleon. 1t was part of his
tory of Corsica which he wrote il
1890.
Pope Leo has headed the subscriI
ton list for an Irish National churc
in Rome and all the other Catholi
authorities have given literally to tn
fund.
The Captains of three Or four of tn
North river steamers have begun th
custom of tolling their vessel-bell
when passing the grave of Geners
Grant.
The irreverence of some of tn
so-caled evangelsts has becom
nauseating They are as familiar wit
the name of the deity as cat with il
kittens.
Philadelphians are raising big fun
to have grand, old-fashioned Fourt
of July celebration. The country gel
orally would do well to return to I'll
old-time custom.
Mrs. Phelps, the wife OF our Minist,
to England, has achieved the distin
ton of being classed with two due
esses as the best dressed women at Il
last drawing room
Thomas H. Atkins, the millionai
retired banker of New York, has b
come an evangelist, He has alreaC
given away the greater part of h
large fortune in charities.
The Mariposa grant, in Califori
which has just been sold to Mack,
and others for 100000, was owned |
John G. Fremont, who soldit for $SO
600 in gold
Collector Magone has forwarded
Washington the report Of comm
sion on Custom House reorganizati
which, il is thought, will save the &C
ernment $4,000 year.
One of the lawyers for Peaks {